Nikolai Kapustin
Nikolai Kapustin: 4th piano concerto (Capriccio)
Listening to Kapustin in 2021 is an act of nostalgia, a gesture of defiance to the dictates of fashion
How Putin uses history as a weapon
Russia’s new Tsar has rewritten the national story
Lily Phillips is a Rorschach test
Experience and behaviour are not solely reducible to consent
Turkey must be at the centre of Donald Trump’s policy for the Middle East
It would be pure folly to alienate such an important regional power
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
Democracy is being undermined in Northern Ireland
Brussels and London are both being reckless about Stormont
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
Killing time
Parliament is making the world a better place, one death at a time
A festival of losing
Will the Republic of Ireland ever face up to its problems?
Could there be a Reform revolution?
Reform’s Welsh Conference brimmed with optimism — but can that be translated into success?
Fiddling while Canterbury burns
The new proposals from the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice are depressingly wrongheaded